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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data
Date: 22 Mar 2002 09:37:02 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lmclzbdd.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020321164353.11007C-100000@is>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> Emacs 21 is perfectly capable of holding binary data in a multibyte 
> buffer, so there's no need to do this on the Lisp level.  If Emacs 
> decides that a buffer needs to be switched to unibyte mode, it will do
> so automatically.

I agree strongly.  Unibyte strings as `an interface' should go away.

A unibyte string (or buffer?) could reference a single character set
that applies to every character in them; if you try to add a character
not in that character set, it would convert the whole thing to
multibyte, and then add the character.

-Miles
-- 
[|nurgle|]  ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that 
            will  make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? 
[iddt]      nurg, that's the goal 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-22  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020319133840.17982G-100000@is>
2002-03-19 14:34 ` struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19 21:27   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-03-21  9:04   ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-21 11:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-21 13:31       ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-21 14:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-21 15:36           ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-21 16:58             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-21 19:45               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-22  1:05                 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-22 11:04                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-22  0:37           ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-03-23  2:35           ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-21 16:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-23  2:36       ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-22  1:30 Kenichi Handa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-22  1:25 Kenichi Handa
2002-03-22  1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-18 23:12 Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19  0:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-03-19  7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-19 12:34   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-19 14:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-19 14:33 ` Luke Gorrie

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